White Tiger

58. Exterminated Race



Enel roll his body slightly as he now laid completely face up, he answered nonchalantly, "Naah, why should i? Not to mention about the fact you had saved me, if i were to arrest you, Impel Down would only labeled me as crazy." 

What a joke, bringing a fancy dressed skeleton and claimed it as the remnant of pirates of old, he hasn't turn crazy yet and Enel was too lazy to explain all of those to the jailer, Besides, Brook's head doesn't give much only 33 million berry. 

"Yohohoho, i'm grateful..." 

"How long have you been here anyway, Brook?" Asked Enel nonchalantly.

Brook paused as he tried to recall, "Yohohoho, i don't remember exactly, when i regained my skeleton body, I stop counting when it reached 130-ish full moons." 

Enel was stunned, 130 full moons means that Brook had already been here for at least ten and half years! And that was not mentioning he stopped counting after 10 years! 

For quite a while they kept silence with only melodious sound of violin drifted in between. 

"Mr.Enel, do you mind if i ask?" Brook broke the silence by asking politely. 

Still resting his head, Enel replied, "Ask away..."

"What did you do in Florian Triangle? Here is considered no-man's region..." 

Enel turned silent, as he contemplate about something and Brook was patient enough to wait, whether Enel would answer him or not it doesn't matters, he just wanted to hear a story from another person to fulfill his lonely thought.

Being alone for decades, Brook was once also a human, and human is a social creature, they need interaction and sometimes without interaction for such a long time, could turn one into a twisted individual or worst, attempting suicide and Brook couldn't even do the later as his devil fruit ability will only bring him back to life even after his body turn into dust. 

Hearing Enel letting out a sigh in rather resigned manner, Brook pricked his ears to hear Enel's story and soon enough, Enel open his mouth, 

"What do you think if you finally met your kin and got to know that you're not alone?" instead of telling a story, Enel asked Brook. 

"Happy, i guess?" Brook who had experiencing such lonelines could answer him easily. 

"Then, what if your newlyfound kin had joined your enemies at the first meeting?" 

Alber or known as King was a pirate from The Beast Pirates group under Kaido, and Enel was a Marine, it was their nature to fight each other. one side wanted to rule the world and another side protecting the current world from such group. 

Brook thought for while before answering, "Sad, I guess..." 

"Indeed, it's complicated..." Sighed Enel heavily.

Finaly knowing his origin as Lunarian, Enel came to term after his battle against King that it might be impossible for them to meet each other and not thinking to kill one another, he was happy knowing his origin, yet at the same time it came with a heavy cost of his only kin was actualy his enemy. 

Brook stop playing the violin and asked, "Does it have something to do with you being Lunarian?" 

"Huh?!" Hearing Brook sentence, Enel couldn't help but sat straight and look toward Brook with wariness in his eyes, Electricity begun jumping around on his hand preparing to fight. 

Seeing Brook nonchalantly picking his teeth opposite of him, Enel relaxed slightly yet doesn't lowered his vigilant, Lunarian was considered as extinct race in the world, how could Brook know about him being Lunarian? 

"Yohohoho, When i fetch you from the water i saw your nape burning strangely, i thought it was from your battle. But after i failed to extinguish your flame no matter what i did, i remember hearing about Lunarian race in the past and their characteristic." spoke Brook calmly, reiterate the process of rescuing Enel.

"You know about Lunarian?" Enel visibly more relaxed since Brook doesn't show any hostility and simply told him about how his identity as Lunarian were known by the skeleton.

"at my time as pirates, I know some people with Lunarian blood were hunted crazily all around the world, some of them became pirates, alas they couldn't hold on..." Brook paused and continue. 

"...Once considered as God's race, maybe now only tale and myth had become their glory, as at the end of my journey the world told us that the Lunarian race had gone extinct."

"God?" Asked Enel picking up some interesting detail. 

"Yohohoho, don't think too much, They were one of few races that lives on top of the Redline, many called them as god..." 

"Extinct? Then how could i met one of them before?" 

Brook shrugged his shoulder lightly, "don't ask me, aren't you one of those Lunarian as well?" 

Enel was stumped, next, he heard Brook's voice once again, 

"At my time, Lunarian information was sought after, if you have any information regarding them. You can get a hefty amount of money, or so i heard." 

Enel relaxed his stance even more, doesn't minding the recent Brook's piece of information regarding Lunarian. 

"Enel-san, it seem presumptious of me, but where's your flame now? i thought i couldn't put out your flame back then..." Brook asked as he looked at Enel's nape, Currently, there was no flame which he saw when the first time he saved Enel.

Enel cracked his neck slightly, soon, 

*Wooosh...

Enel's nape was blazing with Lunarian flame unique to him with sparks of blue electricity surrounding it. 

"You mean this?" Enel smirked, Brook was seen in awe looking at vigorously ablazing flame on Enel's nape. 

A moment later, Enel put out the flame as if it was not there from the start. 

"Yohohoho, you can control it?" Brook was delighted as he sensed that Enel had some trust in him. 

Lunarian was one of the many hunted racial species in the world, revealing their identity would probably casted them into quagmire. 

Enel nodded, "I do, i feel that i can control it. The flames feels like an extension of my body parts, like Limbs." 

Brook was intrigued, he asked curiously, "Then, what can it do?" 

Enel smirked, rather than telling his new friend, it was best to just show it. He extended one of his finger forward, holding it with his other hand and under Brook's shocked gaze, Enel broke it! 

"Enel-san!" Exclaimed Brook in shock.

"Yahahaha, look carefuly." 

Right when Enel just speak, his Lunarian flame ablaze once more, and soon, under Brook astonishment, the weirdly angled finger of Enel immediately fix itself after it was engulfed by the flame! 

"Yohohohohooho! Wonderful, Thank you Enel-san!" Brook bowed his head, he was feeling so grateful toward Enel generosity as the later showed his supposedly secret to him.

Extinguishing the flame, Enel wiggle his fixed finger and replied, "No worries Brook, yahahaha!" 


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